A TAXI firm boss accused of a string of sex offences against two women was gunned down by his brother-in-law, Manchester Crown Court was told.

Mohammed Shaheen, 42, was blasted in the chest and died minutes later, after the alleged killer went to the taxi company, in Chorlton, looking for him.

The prosecution claim the victim was killed by Khyber Khan, 28, who had travelled to Manchester from his home in Pakistan four days earlier.

A few weeks before the shooting one of the women who complained to police about the alleged sex assaults claimed Mr Shaheen "made death threats" to her parents, after which Khyber Khan had flown to Manchester.

Prosecutor David Steer QC said the flight was booked after the murder victim's behaviour towards the two women was becoming "ever more alarming".

Mr Steer said four days later Khan turned up at Olympic Taxis, on Keppell Road, Chorlton, where Mr Shaheen was the major shareholder, and blasted him in the chest with a shotgun in front of one of his staff. Paramedics tried to help Mr Shaheen, but he was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital.

Just hours after the shooting the prosecution allege Khan went back to Manchester Airport, where he was met by his sisters, Parveen Khan, 23, of Alexandra Street, Ashton, and Nasreen Khan, 26, of Cornbrook Park Road, Old Trafford. It is alleged he was then given money before flying back to Pakistan.

Khan was arrested in January after arriving at Heathrow. Mr Steer said he could be linked to the shooting by a thumb print on a cigarette packet at the scene.

Khan denies murder. His sisters both deny perverting the course of justice by allegedly helping him leave the country.